Liberal Baghdad Bobbing

America today is “more respected, more engaged and more secure” than it was when President Obama came to office in early 2009, Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer told an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

They had a Baghdad Bob moment on MSNBC this morning in the 9am hour (Eastern time). The Lean Forward network's screen graphic read "WASSERMAN SCHULTZ RECEIVES CHEERS AT FLORIDA DELEGATION BREAKFAST," while it was very plain to viewers that she was being booed relentlessly. -Tim Graham

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday that the Southern border is secure, despite the massive surge of undocumented minors crossing over into the U.S. “The border is secure,” he said after the Senate Democrats’ weekly policy lunch, according to The Hill.

Speaking with reporters on Monday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that Obamacare, once implemented, would be “glorious.” She said, “We’ll ride this out…It’s worth the trouble, it’s going to be a glorious thing.”

Marc Ambinder:

Hillary Is Not Under Investigation

Republicans Are Liars.

Republicans who say that @HillaryClinton is now "under FBI investigation" or that the FBI "re-opened" one ... are lying. They are liars.

On Sunday, a day after the date on which the White House had promised Healthcare.gov would work for a "vast majority" of Americans, Jeffrey Zients, the man tasked with fixing the dysfunctional website, claimed it was "much more stable" and "reliably open for business."

House Democratic leaders are holding firm in their support for President Obama's health care law, saying the Affordable Care Act is "working" and that no apology is necessary regarding its problem-plagued rollout... House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., called the president's move "a good step forward." But he added the law already "is working for millions and millions of people right now, and will work for millions and millions of more people."

"The Affordable Care Act, by any fair measure, is working for millions of Americans." -Kathleen Sebelius

But in the coming years, Fox will no longer be the center of Media Matters’ universe. That’s because the group believes it has effectively discredited the network’s desire to be seen as “fair and balanced.” “The war on Fox is over,” said Media Matters Executive Vice President Angelo Carusone. “And it’s not just that it’s over, but it was very successful. To a large extent, we won.”

Despite the reported technical difficulties preventing Americans from enrolling in the new Obamacare exchanges on HealthCare.Gov, Sebelius said: “The website has never crashed. It is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function.” As Sebelius testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday, some users reported getting this message on that website: “The system is down at the moment. We are experiencing technical difficulties and hope to have them resolved soon. Please try again later.”

"We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is having an adverse impact on job growth or the number of hours employees are working." -Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors

“That is not true, sir! We do not have an increasing national debt! For the past six to seven years we have been continuously driving that debt down and reducing it and it is NOT increasing.” -Senator Mary Landrieu

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) compared those who oppose Obamacare to the South in the Civil War saying, “This is Gettysburg, this is the big battle and after this the Civil War was pretty much down hill for the South. That’s really what’s happening here for the forces against Obamacare.”

“The point is, the essence of the law, the health insurance that’s available to people, is working just fine,” Obama said. “In some cases, actually, it’s exceeding expectations — the prices are lower than we expected, the choice is greater than we expected.”

James Carville, a Democratic campaign consultant and one-time advisor to Bill Clinton, asked Friday “Why do they want to cut anything? The debt is going down.” Last week, the national debt surpassed $16.6 trillion--an increase of more than $6 trillion since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday. "We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.

When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform." However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays. "We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.

Appearing on Morning Joe, Karen Mills, the head of the Small Business Administration, claimed this about numerous reports of small business owners saying Obamacare will have a negative impact on them: “You know, I travel all around the country, every week I go to a different part of the country. I’m with small businesses. And I’m not hearing that.”

The President of CBS News told the Greater Chamber's annual Economic Outlook Conference that claims by conservatives that his network, and the rest of what has derisively been labeled as the 'mainstream media' are simply 'labels' and David Rhodes said those labels 'don't stick.'... In fact, Rhodes said CBS is a beacon of unbiased news.

Sec. Hilda Solis argued the economy is “steadily healing,” responding to the disappointing August jobs report. “I see a jobs report that tells me we are steadily healing because we are still adding jobs,” Solis said, in an interview with Bloomberg News. “We still have a strong area in manufacturing where 500,000 jobs have been created.” “Manufacturing declined, though,” Bloomberg anchor Betty Liu interrupted.

Deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said that Americans were "absolutely" better off than they were four years ago on Monday — breaking with the cautious line taken by top Obama advisers just a day previously.

MRCTV's Joe Schoffstall ran into "Good Morning America" host George Stephanopoulos at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. When asked if he believes there is a liberal bias in the media, he responds,"I don't." When asked again, he walks away.

Lis Smith, a spokesman for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, touted Solyndra by saying the failed energy company that received federally backed loans has been "widely praised as successful and innovative."

"We've created 4.3 million jobs over the past 27 months. The private sector is doing fine," said Obama. "Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don’t have the same kind of flexibility of the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in."

“I believe the border is secure. I believe the border’s a safe border. That’s not to say everything is 100 percent,” Napolitano said.

There are no current known cases of scabies among the Occupiers and homeless staying at the park. It is not a concern among the Occupiers on the whole and the movement will continue with full support of Civic Center Park.

Then, Akerson did something really bad. Surprisingly, Akerson used Toyota as a benchmark and reportedly said that “Toyota sold about the same amount of Prius in its first year as the Volt in its first year.”

As soon as I heard about the “scandal” involving Rep. Anthony Weiner, and saw it being pushed like crazy by fraudster Andrew Breitbart, I knew it would turn out to be yet another phony story. And that’s exactly what happened.

It is a society in which powerful productive forces and progressive science and culture have been created, in which the well-being of the people is constantly rising, and more and more favourable conditions are being provided for the all-round development of the individual. -Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

When President Obama unveiled his budget on Monday, it became clear that he would break his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office. But the White House website is still prominently touting the promise.

First Lady Michelle Obama cited "remarkable progress" on the economy during a speech for a small crowd of high-profile Hollywood names in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening. "In the last three years, we've worked hard to get out of this mess and we've made some remarkable progress," the first lady told a group of about 135 supporters at a private campaign event for her husband.

Top US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush Wednesday that his Iraq troop "surge" policy was a failure. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq by sending him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later on Wednesday.

"Our budget will get us, over the next several years, to the point where we can look the American people in the eye and say we're not adding to the debt anymore; we're spending money that we have each year, and then we can work on bringing down our national debt."

In a new fundraising email from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Pelosi guarantees in no uncertain terms that Democrats will retain control of the House of Representatives. Here is what will happen in November. Democrats will keep control of the House. Period.

Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.

"In some ways I'm actually more optimistic now than I was when we first ran, because we've already seen change take place," Obama said when asked whether he still believed in 'hope and change,' his signature slogan of the 2008 election cycle.

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.'' Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

"We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure we continue that pace of recovery." The New York Post compared her remarks to someone taking custody of a shipwreck. "If this is a 'turnaround,' what would a quagmire look like?"

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaking to reporters Tuesday afternoon in Washington, said she was confident she would retain her gavel. Pelosi said Democrats were “on pace to retain the majority in the House of Representatives.”

In a new fundraising email from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Pelosi guarantees in no uncertain terms that Democrats will retain control of the House of Representatives. Here is what will happen in November. Democrats will keep control of the House. Period.

Romney is the only fellow in the United States who appears to think that the Volt is an idea whose time has not come. Clearly it has not come to him. The Volt is selling like hotcakes. -Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.” — Michael Moore

Now — with Americans strongly supporting health insurance reform, with Congress reaching consensus on a plan, and with a president who ran and won on this specific promise of change — America is closer than ever to this century-deferred goal.